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New York: 1982. 48 pages, 75 photographs. Almost 100 terra cotta figures and heads--perhaps dating from the 12th-16th centuries--were exhibited in 1982 at the Craft Caravan Gallery. This catalouge of that exhibition illustrates each object and provides (for the first time in any publication?) a very complete look at the... More about EXCAVATED "BAMBARA" TERRA COTTA

Munich: 1982. 60 pages 22 full-page and 3 fullpage color photographs, 2 maps. This slim Galerie Biedermann publication presents twenty-five terra cotta statuettes excavated from the inland delta of Mali's Niger River. The twenty-five statuettes represent both styles (southern and northern) found in this region, and are thought to be... More about THE TERRACOTTA STATUARY OF THE INLAND DELTA OF THE NIGER IN MALI

New York: Museum of Primitive Art, 1964. 126 pages, 186 photographs. Hard board cover, with dust jacket. Fine condition. In 1964, the Museum of Primitive Art presented an exhibition of Senufo art--the first ever mounted in the United States. Many of the objects in the exhibition had never before been... More about SENUFO SCULPTURE FROM WEST AFRICA

New York: Museum of Primitive Art, 1960. 64 pages, 112 photographs, 1 map. Hard board cover with dust jacket. In 1960 the Museum of Primitive Art presented an exhibition of Bambara art--the first comprehensive showing ever of the art of this people. Many of the objects in the exhibition had... More about BAMBARA SCULPTURE FROM THE WESTERN SUDAN

Milan, 1976: New York, 1977. 200 pages, 290 large photographs--many full-page. Cloth cover. This valuable volume presents an important and fascinating pictorial study not only of the togu na--the men's meeting houses in which the elders of each Dogon village perform their religous ceremonies--but of Dogon communal existence and of... More about TOGU NA--THE AFRICAN DOGON